April 18, 2014

Sona Kalapura Coffee serves as the city’s environmental programs manager. Since August her arrival in 2008, she has been the force behind several cutting edge “green” policy enactments, including high-profile bans on plastic bags, smoking in public places, and polystyrene products in restaurants. She also organized two climate-related public actions, 2009’s Amazing Waving Human Tide Line and the MB2025 Forum, which took place two Saturdays ago and launched Manhattan Beach’s effort to convert entirely to renewable energy by 2015. It is no coincidence that Coffee’s tenure dovetails with Manhattan Beach’s efforts to go green.

The Poop Deck on the Hermosa Beach Strand lost its lease last month. Saturday’s 57th anniversary party will also be the Strand-front bar’s last.

by by Alyssa Morin Last year, Gwynne Shotwell,  president and chief operating officer of aerospace giant SpaceX, spoke to a